Downtown Hornell is packed in with snow in this file photo, but the city has seen snowier days. The record Christmas Day snowfall for Hornell is the 26 inches that was dropped on the city in 1978.

On average, about 38% of the contiguous 48 states has an inch of snow on the ground on Christmas Day, according to 21 years of data compiled by NOAA. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Has it ever snowed in Fresno on Christmas Day? The short answer is “no,” according to Mikal Montgomery, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Hanford office.

According to a long-range forecast by AccuWeather, the odds are low of Louisiana seeing snow on Christmas this year. In fact, in North Louisiana, the forecast for Christmas Eve reads 64 degrees ...